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title: "Is Barbados a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Barbados (Bridgetown): 158.3 Mbps internet, safety 55/100, healthcare 82/100 — essentials ≈ $2,698/month, so $3k lives \"comfortable\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
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Livability · rank 56/167

# Is 🇧🇧 Barbados (Bridgetown) a good place to live?

Quality score **72/100** against essentials of **$2,698/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 63 158.3 Mbps median broadband, 70.4% online

Safety 55 7.4 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 82 UHC service coverage 82/100 (2023)

Air quality 89 PM2.5 9.8 µg/m³ (2023)

## Beside the score, not inside it

Neither of these is part of the composite above, deliberately. Folding governance into a quality-of-life number would bury a political judgement where you could not see it or argue with it, and connection *price* is a different question from connection *speed* — somewhere fast and expensive and somewhere slow and cheap are different trade-offs, not one average.

- **Rule of law**: strong
- World Bank WGI estimate 0.73 · corruption control 1.23 · stability 1.27 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $60 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $35/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($2,698) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 0.7× | out of budget |
| $3,000 | 1.1× | comfortable |
| $5,000 | 1.9× | very comfortable |

Essentials from the [Pint & Property basket](https://geo-parity.com/expenses/?tab=prices). Rank countries by your own priorities in the [interactive matrix](https://geo-parity.com/livability/).

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## Similar value-for-money

- [🇫🇲 Micronesia](https://geo-parity.com/livability/micronesia/) — quality 71.3, essentials $2,482/mo
- [🇧🇸 Bahamas](https://geo-parity.com/livability/bahamas/) — quality 53.7, essentials $2,258/mo
- [🇰🇳 Saint Kitts and Nevis](https://geo-parity.com/livability/saint-kitts-and-nevis/) — quality 49.1, essentials $1,628/mo
- [🇮🇱 Israel](https://geo-parity.com/livability/israel/) — quality 82.1, essentials $2,677/mo

See also: [everyday prices](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/barbados/) · [retiring in Barbados](https://geo-parity.com/fire/barbados/)

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Barbados a good place to live for remote workers?**: Barbados scores 72/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 158.3 Mbps, safety 55, healthcare 82, air quality 89; English not scored) — rank 56 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Barbados?**: Median fixed broadband is around 158.3 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Barbados?**: Single-person essentials run about $2,698/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "comfortable" (1.1× essentials).

Safety, healthcare and air quality are objective figures from the World Bank (homicide rate, life expectancy) and WHO (PM2.5); internet speed and English are curated. City variation is real — verify locally. Agents: GET /api/livability.json?budget=3000.

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Source: Geo-Parity — https://geo-parity.com/livability/barbados/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json